Sentence examples for maintained firmly from inspiring English sources
He was thus a good devil's advocate, though he maintained firmly that he championed only orthodoxy.
But Mexican Secretary of Interior Miguel Ángel Osorio Cong maintains firmly that the government's position is that "they have to leave the job up to the authorities".
"He firmly maintained his position".
The Premier again firmly maintained the impossibility of putting the 5s.
These were firmly maintained even in texts, such as the Phaselis decree, that accord specific limited legal privileges.
These Washington, who had already clashed with the Senate on foreign affairs, refused to deliver, and, in the face of an acrimonious debate, he firmly maintained his position.
The distinction is often less clearly defined than in Western music and is now not so firmly maintained in the wake of recent political and social changes.
But she also firmly maintained that STAP cells, the new type of stem cells she claims to have developed, exist, and said she will not retract the two Nature papers reporting her finding.
I've maintained this stance firmly since my mother and I tore through a bag of Lays during The Road to El Dorado in 1999 (don't blame us we were the only ones in the theater!).
Nevertheless, Dunglass firmly maintained all his life that the Munich agreement had been vital to the survival of Britain and the defeat of Nazi Germany by giving the UK an extra year to prepare for a war that it could not have contested in 1938.
Although the hand was firmly maintained, no subject complained of pain.
